You knew this was coming:
OpenAI is moving ahead with plans to restructure as a for-profit company and is in discussions to give chief executive Sam Altman a stake as it confronts a series of senior departures including its high-profile chief technology officer Mira Murati.OpenAI was founded as a non-profit dedicated to ensuring that artificial general intelligence — which aims to replicate human intelligence — would benefit all of humanity. In 2019, the company changed to a “capped profit” structure, allowing it to raise large amounts of capital from the likes of Microsoft, which has invested $13bn.
Non-profits are never free from the reach of massive capital. A mini-scale version of this happened when
2U, a for-profit company, bought edX, an online course nonprofit. (It did not
turn out well.)
OpenAI were already acting like a for-profit company and certainly not doing anything for the good of humanity, so I guess this doesn't really change anything.